The smallest car ever made had no reverse gear

Per Boing Boing, the Peel P50 holds the record as the smallest production car ever made—and it came with a rather unusual limitation: no reverse gear. Whenever a driver needed to turn around in a tight spot, they'd have to get out and manually drag the entire car around by hand using a handle bolted to the rear.

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